Exploring Best Practices in Data Management, Integration, and Visualization
Session Type
Workshop session
Start Date
20-8-2020 8:00 AM
Description
Facilitators: Sarah Arpin, Geologist II, Kentucky Geological Survey, and Dr. Pat Kambesis, Center for Human Geoenviron-mental Studies, Department of Earth Environment and Atmospheric Sciences, WKU
This workshop intended to help resource managers and researchers consider data from a data-management per-spective. An important focus was exploring tools and techniques for getting the most value out of data. A holisticapproach to storing, accessing, and processing data is key to better understanding, management, and protection of vulnerable resources, environments, and ecosystems. The integration of data of all types, sources, and formats for a unified view was also covered. Visualization of data beyond tables and graphs, using creative 2-D, 3-D, and spatialmaps and models, was explored. Limitations of various software programs used to access, manage, manipulate, andvisualize data were considered. Participants engaged in open discussion of current practices in data management,integration, and visualization, learned from peers, and received instruction on emerging techniques. Bothprofessionals and the public can benefit from community involvement through crowd sourcing data and citizen sci-ence. Making data available through an easy-to-use interface for visualization, searching, and reusability is key to understanding and protecting our natural resources.
Recommended Citation
Arpin, Sarah M. and Kambesis, Pat, "Exploring Best Practices in Data Management, Integration, and Visualization" (2020). Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources Proceedings. 3.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/con_karst_res_proc/con_karst_pro_2020/day_three/3
Exploring Best Practices in Data Management, Integration, and Visualization
Facilitators: Sarah Arpin, Geologist II, Kentucky Geological Survey, and Dr. Pat Kambesis, Center for Human Geoenviron-mental Studies, Department of Earth Environment and Atmospheric Sciences, WKU
This workshop intended to help resource managers and researchers consider data from a data-management per-spective. An important focus was exploring tools and techniques for getting the most value out of data. A holisticapproach to storing, accessing, and processing data is key to better understanding, management, and protection of vulnerable resources, environments, and ecosystems. The integration of data of all types, sources, and formats for a unified view was also covered. Visualization of data beyond tables and graphs, using creative 2-D, 3-D, and spatialmaps and models, was explored. Limitations of various software programs used to access, manage, manipulate, andvisualize data were considered. Participants engaged in open discussion of current practices in data management,integration, and visualization, learned from peers, and received instruction on emerging techniques. Bothprofessionals and the public can benefit from community involvement through crowd sourcing data and citizen sci-ence. Making data available through an easy-to-use interface for visualization, searching, and reusability is key to understanding and protecting our natural resources.
Comments
This presentation was part of the Workshops Session:
Thematic workshops facilitate collaboration between international resource protection programs and to inform karst conservation, sustainable development, and community involvement efforts in the world’s premier karst regions. Workshops are 1.5-hour blocks of time that were organized to achieve a specific outcome.